(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert Published weekly since July, 2014 www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-June-27%2C-2024.pdf
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California- Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-June-20%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers You are invited to my presentation in San Francisco next Saturday, June 29, 2024, livestream at 7:30pm. The Water and Energy Policy California Urgently Needs to Revive Itself Livestream will start Saturday, June…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California- Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-June%2C-13-2024.pdf A Note to Readers Following a three-week break, we return to our weekly schedule. Since we are now in the midst of a national election campaign that will determine the future of the nation, and civilization itself,…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California- Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-May-16%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers While the May weather here in Oakland so far has tended toward the cooler level of the thermometer, much of the rest of the nation has seen some serious storms, flooding and a…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-May-9%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers Nationally, drought has mostly disappeared from the nation, except in the Pacific Northwest and some of the northern Rocky mountain states. The U.S. Drought Monitor’s national and Western states report provides some details. In…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California- Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-May-2%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers Sometimes these reports can seem redundant do to the more narrow focus on California water and infrastructure that is, of course, the title of the reports. For me, both areas are elements of…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California- Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-April-25%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers It has been a very quiet week for news relevant to these reports. In fact, I have just two items for this report. The first is the announcement by the California Department of…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-April-18%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers Due to a scheduling problem, this week’s report will go forward without my usual introduction. I am sure you, the readers, will survive until next week. What I do include in the report covers…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-April-11%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers The discussion of drought this week gives a larger national and North American picture of drought and the lack of it. As the U.S. Drought Monitor’s discussion of the national picture states, “Following the…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-April-4%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers The Feature this week is titled, “The Francis Scott Key Bridge, Part II.” And it presents an article by my associate Brian Lantz: “Sinking the USA? Free Trade Brought Down the Francis Scott Key…
